I do sometimes wonder if that's why Wadjda gets shut out so goddamn completely.

Well Perfect American has been pretty divisive. It's the same production company that did this year's amazing Satyagraha revival though, if you've seen that, and there's some similarly level staging work, but it is a fairly silly opera in places (he is actually chased by Lincoln's robot at one point.) A boring attack…

Liked for acknowledging Wadjda. Everyone should acknowledge Wadjda.

I know exactly how that feels. Watching a cult film with a large audience is a special experience (probably the best actual theatrical experience I had this year was Army of Darkness for precisely this reason.)

I'd actually rather talk about revival screenings because that shakes lists up a bit. I'd say Oh Boy and Life Is No Piece of Cake were the two best movies I saw in the IFI's Kinofest (a German film festival) and John Carpenter's Christine and Big Bad Wolves win Horrorthon (with a close runner up nod to Army of…

Nebraska was a joy from start to finish. I enjoyed it on the pure giddy character comedy driven level you get from a really crackling Coen Bros movie.

Act of Killing, Computer Chess, Stories We Tell and Wadjda in your top eight? I approve.

It's a Last Emperor-style movie about Tibet with a Philip Glass soundtrack. There is no way I wouldn't love it (and one can probably group it with Last Temptation as an interesting example of Scorsese's approach to religious filmmaking, both of which I quite enjoy.)

Aren't most best movies of the year on limited release? I definitely think this is a distribution issue.

Major props for including Samsara, a film I found remarkable in a Koyaaniqatsi/Baraka sort of way but seems to have been largely ignored in Best Of roundups.

Berberian Sound Studio was one of my favourite movies of 2012, it's great to see it so well received in the US.

I know I watch all my movies by reading Roger Ebert reviews.

Computer Chess is very interesting. Easily the best movie about 1980s computer geeks I've seen, out of a competitive list of that one movie (but no it is really good.)

Carl Theodor Dreyer pushed Falconetti very hard because she is playing Joan of Arc, a woman who is being tortured and harassed and he needed her emotional pain to appear genuine. I do not feel you can fairly compare what Kechiche did in Blue Is The Warmest Colour at all to his work.

I almost want to see Saving Mr. Banks solely so I can contrast it with Perfect American, as two diametrically opposed 2013 cultural depictions of Walt Disney. (Philip Glass's opera is based on a novel that channels all the nastiest stories about Disney true or otherwise, painting him as an egoist who downplays the…

Syfy UK have also been airing the HD Blu-ray versions of Next Generation for the first time on TV all year. It's the cheapskate's way to see what CBS has done (and what they've done with the remasters is frankly bloody fantastic.)

I'm pretty sure it is illegal. Netflix only has the legal right to stream stuff in certain areas.

It's interesting that three of the movies mentioned here (Stories We Tell, act of Killing and Room 237) are documentaries. I didn't get to Room 237, but it actually aired here last year for whatever reason.

My point is as much as I love Orphan Black and it's one of my favourite new shows of the year, a lot of critics act as if Tatiana Malsany's multiple performances were the thing that elevated an otherwise pedestrian series - basically, given this slightly mixed reception it felt like the least likely New Show to get…

Yeah I honestly doubt I'll see a movie as purely enjoyable as Wadjda from the remaining crop… or in quite a while, really. (I'm just back from Blue Is The Warmest Colour, and well, that was a thing.)